Unity hiding open LibreOffice files

[Colin Law]

On 3 February 2013 07:29, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> A small office that just converted to Ubuntu is having problems with
> opening / finding open LibreOffice documents in Unity. The issue seems
> to be that if any arbitrary document is already open in LibreOffice,
> on any desktop, then clicking on the file in the file manager does
> nothing. The file is not opened in another instance. The running
> instance is not brought to the forefront. No error, warning, or notice
> is given. Absolutely no feedback is returned to the user, who might
> not be aware that another instance is running with the file already
> open.
>
> Is there any way to get the running instance brought to the forefront?

What do you mean when you say it is open on any desktop?  Are you
talking about the same file being open on a different PC or are you
talking about workspaces on one PC? Or what?

Colin